Tradition 34 of 35
Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
Mythic systems, traditional folklore, sacred and supernatural legends, fairy tales, and documented folk beliefs that preserve or contextualize magical, spiritual, anomalous, and otherworldly traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 20,091
- Earliest
- 1000
- to 2026
- Read free
- 72%
- 14,383 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match17,236
- Metadata match585
- Query match2,265
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Folklore3.6K
- Legends2.1K
- Fairy tales1.8K
- Tales1.5K
- Fiction1.4K
- History1.1K
- Mythology840
- Early works to 1800760
- Poetry694
- Juvenile fiction684
- Translations into English635
- Social life and customs617
- History and criticism530
- Drama509
- Juvenile literature491
- Religion485
- Greek Mythology475
- Superstition473
- Classical Mythology437
- Short Stories350
- Indians of North America341
- Children's stories334
- Horror tales293
- Biography292
Top languages
- English8,343 · 42%
- German4,162 · 21%
- French1,648 · 8%
- Latin836 · 4%
- NOT738 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- ca. v6. Jh Aesopus135 books
- Hans Christian Andersen102 in this tradition103 books
- Andrew Lang70 in this tradition83 books
- Charles Perrault66 in this tradition76 books
- Nathaniel Hawthorne64 in this tradition74 books
- ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus58 books
- Euripides56 in this tradition59 books
- Jacob Grimm55 books
- Benjamin Blake52 books
- Edgar Allan Poe51 in this tradition63 books
- Jean de La Fontaine50 in this tradition56 books
- Wilhelm Grimm50 in this tradition53 books
20,091 books
Dictys Cretensis De bello Troiano
Dictys Cretensis
1618Latin
Die Bauern-praktik, 1508
1896German
Die Gesta Romanorum
1890German
Die Kpelle: Ein Negerstamm in Liberia
Diedrich Westermann
1921German
Die Königsgleichnisse des Midrasch, Beleuchtet Durch die Römische Kaiserzeit
Ignaz Ziegler
1903German
Die Nayarit-Expedition: Textaufnahmen und Beobachtungen unter Mexikanischen Indianern
Konrad Theodor Preuss
1912German
Die blaue bibliothek aller nationen ...
1790German
Die wunderbare und merkwürdige Geschichte vom Zauberer Virgilius
1848German
Dizionario delle favole per uso delle scuole d'Italia
1810Italian
DuBose Heyward's Use of Folklore in His Negro Fiction
Frank Durham
1961
Dīwān Miṣr
1880Arabic
Dīwān al-Bardawīl ibn Rāshid
1881Arabic
Dīwān al-Zanātī Khalīfah
1866Arabic
Dīwān al-aitām
1881Arabic
Dīwān al-Ṣaldī
1880Arabic
Dīwān manāmāt al-Malikah Shīḥah
1880Arabic
Dīwān ākhir sīrat Banī Hilāl wa-iṭlāq Diyāb min al-sijn wa-salṭanatuhu wa-qatalatuhu wa-qatlat Abū Zayd wa-al-Sulṭān Ḥasan wa-salṭanat Burīqaʿ ibn Ḥasan
1878Arabic
Ein Geistliches Spiel von S. Meinrads Leben und Sterben
1863German
Eine Wahre und approbirte Kunst in Feuers-Brünsten und Pestilentz-Zeiten nützlich zu gebrauchen
1780German
El Folk-lore frexnense y bético-extremeño
1883Spanish
El Pais de la Selva
Ricardo Rojas
1925Spanish
Eliae Schedii De dis Germanis
Elias Schedius
1648Latin
Erebīana ṭelaśa, eṭale, uṅgamaṇṇa taraphanāṃ loko tathā teonāṃ pāhādaśāhono hevāla aśala Erebīmothī Pharenaca bhaśāmmo ane Pharencamothī Angarejīmo tarajumo thāeloche te ūparathī Gujarāthīmo bhāshānatara kodhāmo āvīūche
1848GUJ
Estoria del noble cauallero el conde Fernan Gonzalez
1871Spanish